Website security scanning

Website security scanning is necessary to find out if a website has any loopholes. These holes can be found by looking for hacker-friendly URLs and malvertising, as well as malware that is present on the website. Website security scanning should go beyond one-time scans – it should be done regularly so that new holes don’t […]

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Copy file permissions with PowerShell

Setup: You want to copy all the permissions from one file to another with PowerShell Solution: Move to the folder of the source file Move to the folder of the destination file: This method is very useful for copying the permissions of .vhd files after you move/copy them between different folders/virtual machines. Before attaching a […]

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Retrieve passwords from IIS Application Pool with PowerShell remotely

Setup: Server with IIS installed and a remote computer with PowerShell Problem: IIS store the Application Pool Account password un-encrypted and is trivial to retrieve it. If you want to list all application pool accounts and their passwords use the following PowerShell command. You can even scan entire network/domain and make a list will all […]

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